print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1872,1012.5080
- Title
- Object: Modern Antiques
- Description
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Title from Grego, A collection of antiques, real or faked, Egyptian and classical. A buxom young woman opens a hinged mummy-case (left) to embrace a handsome young officer in regimentals who stands within it. An aged man crouching down (right) glares at them through an eye-glass in frenzied malevolence. Another mummy has a realistic head, and there is a life-like statue of an Egyptian wearing a head-dress and loin-cloth. There are also a satyr and smaller figures of Egyptian gods. On the wall are grotesque satyrs' masks and on a high shelf are Greek or Etruscan vases. On the ground is a book: 'Loves of the Gods Embelld with Cuts'.
Plate numbered 3.
1811?
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1811 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 333 millimetres
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Width: 248 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 223 f.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2001 May-Jul, Hanover, Wilhelm-Busch Museum, 'Thomas Rowlandson'
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1872,1012.5080
